If you grew up in Cleveland, Ohio

[Diamond_Dog]

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A montage of historical scenes from Cleveland, Ohio.

I remember my Dad talking about going to baseball games at League Park, hitching a ride on the back of a streetcar, and pitching in the sandlot leagues. And I remember my parents taking my sister and me to downtown Cleveland during Christmas shopping season. Probably mid to late 60s. The toys were on the 7th floor at Halle’s dept. store! And the huge old Municipal Stadium. I got a ball fouled off by Ray Fosse.

[birdographer]

1. We used to take the rapid transit

into downtown. At the station there was this place (I think it was off of Halle's basement) that made super milkshakes. When my SO and I were first dating, we managed to walk into what was called the Cleveland Municipal Stadium on a random weekday and wander around the empty field and dugout without getting caught.

My great-grandfather, Charles Adams, was instrumental in establishing Cleveland as a city. He started what turned into the Chamber of Commerce and was a huge deal in the city. I have telegrams to him from a Rockefeller and all sorts of Cleveland memorabilia from the 20's and 30's.

I was raised in a suburb of Cleveland called Shaker Heights.

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3. My brother-in-law was the sportswriter Bob Godley's son.

He grew up in Shaker Hts. When he was young, his older cousin would babysit him accompanied by her steady….a teenaged boy named Paul Newman.

Bob Godley also called the Indians games for radio.

Lots of great stories from that era.

[Tetrachloride]

4. a couple days ago, i watched the first hour of Cool Hand Luke

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Wow, that's awesome ... Paul Newman!

I remember Herb Score calling the baseball games on the radio and my parents talked about Jimmy Dudley.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. What a great story!

My Dad grew up in Cleveland and we lived an hour away, but he told so many stories and we went there for games and shopping enough that I felt like I knew what was what pretty well.

I too remember Halle’s department store. I remember those vacuum tubes the clerks used to send your payment to the office.

When my dad would bring us into downtown for Indians games, my 8-year-old self used to love gazing at the beautiful old English Tudor mansions in Shaker Heights. To me each one looked like a castle.

Those telegrams and memorabilia you have are really something special, birdographer.

[birdographer]

12. Thanks

Here's my problem--there is SO much Cleveland history in what I have--newspaper articles, official documents from early formation of the Chamber, it's fascinating stuff and historical...and sitting in a drawer in a bureau in my closet. I have no kids or relatives to pass it on to so it will be ultimately discarded, I am sure. I would gladly send it off--part of it is a leather-bound scrapbook (cover and pages falling apart) that my grandmother kept about her father. There's an article with an amusing cartoon-like graphic of my great-grandfather, Clarence Darrow, and others meeting about something. I just hate it that it is sitting there (in a big ziplock baggie) being wasted, but I have no idea what to do with it. I don't know anyone in Cleveland who would care.

We lived in a large house but only average for Shaker--my grandparents and aunts and uncles lived in the houses you are talking about. Amazing places.

[blm]

13. Facebook has some pages devoted to Cleveland architecture and

history. They can help you.

In the late 60s my sister discovered the scrapbook she had found in an attic was Cy Young’s personal scrapbook his mother had started. She had thought it was his father’s so she had it rebound in leather and surprised him for his birthday. When it turned out to be Cy Young’s own scrapbook, she made arrangements for it to go to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

[birdographer]

14. Do you happen to have a link to the FB pages?

I spend zero time on FB, but I do have an account. Searching would be tough.

[blm]

15. Here you go

Cleveland - Our Architectural Legacy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/203417926921717

[birdographer]

16. Thanks!

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2. I got into Indians' games only with Straight A report cards.

The Cleveland Press used to award them to A students.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. I remember that! Sadly I did not live close enough to participate in that.

[CanonRay]

5. My wife grew up there on West 93rd

[Diamond_Dog]

11. Awesome! A West sider. My dad grew up in the Fulton/Clark area.

[Wuddles440]

6. The Cleveland/Akron Metro areas...

are great places to live! The only downside is that they're located in a state with some of the most corrupt, incompetent, imbecilic, and regressive governing officials in the nation.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. Thank you, and it sure was fun back in the 70s.

I was a student at Kent State back then.

Republicans ruined everything. If only we could kick them all out, keep Brown, and elect Tim Ryan our Governor after DeWine is done ….

[Marthe48]

17. Thanks for the post

I grew up in Broadview Heights. If you head into Cleveland on Broadview Rd. there is a fantastic view of the Terminal Tower and other buildings that seemed to float in the sky. I love that view.
Our family had a store east of Cleveland, and most of our driving was that way, except to see my aunt and uncle in Rocky River

[Diamond_Dog]

18. I know exactly the view you speak of, Marthe48.

It’s been a long time though.

My middle son works in Macedonia, not far from your old stomping grounds. 🙂

[Marthe48]

19. I had lunch in Northfield with my cousin

The town where our grocery store was. Getting a little far from Cleveland. Lol
I've been all around lately.

[Diamond_Dog]

20. You sure have!

Did you play the ponies while in Northfield?